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Book cover for Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
They say that self-discipline is like a muscle. If you use it, it gets stronger, and if you don’t, it gets weaker.
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Christopher Hitchens
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Albert Einstein
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.”
― Goethe

Isaac Newton
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”
― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence of Isaac Newton: Volume 5, 1709–1713

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